Great Pumpkin Run offers fun salute to fall in Indiana

12:32 AM,
Sep. 22, 2013

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Written by

Jenna Esarey
| Special to The Courier-Journal

Runners dressed as pumpkins, monsters, cats and the cast of "The Wizard of Oz" joined their more traditionally garbed peers for a 5K run Saturday through fields and woods before finishing through a corn maze in Lanesville, Ind.

Janna Hook and her friend Emily Rust made the trek from Louisville for the inaugural Great Pumpkin Run, which drew about 200 runners to Deere Farms. "We love pumpkins and running and fall, and this event sounded fun," Hook said.

Although runners were timed, no awards were given. "It's just for fun," said Erik Young with Riff Raff Productions of Dayton, Ohio, which ...